Turn off one spicket and the pressure of money will find a different pipe to funnel influence.

In the meantime it is important to expose the large money "special interest groups" and not just shine a spotlight on their hired guns/lobbyists. The largest group of lobbiests are for drug corporations. They have more than one lobbyist per Congressmen and Senators combined.

Regarding the the best Congress money can buy...it was only ten years ago that they passed a rule to disallow the passing out of envelopes of cash immediately before voting on various bills.

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Naemanson observes that Reps have money scandals and Dems have sex.

well that is not the magor difference, besides it is the other party that usually brings the accusations.

Both parties are willing participents in the military Industrial Complex and corporate shadow goverment that some people call the octopus.

The difference is that Republicans seek corporate totalitarian, law and order, anti labor, anti corporate regulation as well as all the inherent classism and racism that goes with it.

The Democrats are nearly the same with a little less overt anti labor, classims and racism.


My other thought of the day involves how during the cold war the message was communism was godless and was anti capitalistic. AAlong the way some people assumed the democracy and capitalism went hand in hand or even worse the same thing.

Now that China is a purely capitalistic nation AND a totalitarian state, the US corporate captains of industry are jealous of China.
So jealous of their communism/totalitariamism which makes coprporations free of any protections for workers that US business and factories go to China.

When that is impractical what corporations truely desire are the same totalitarian freedoms that China enjoys - right here in the USA.

If the current trend continues corporate money will continue to rely on the support of RED states (no pun intended) with the lure of the bible and patriotism to steer the nation toward CAPITALISTIC COMMUNISM.

US workers have made enormous sacrifices already in the name of "competitiveness".

Lets face it. Its capitialistic communism with an enphasis on religion.